| 单词 | precisive abstraction |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprecisive abstraction 1. That exactly separates or distinguishes one thing from another; limiting, determining. Chiefly Philosophy, esp. in precisive abstraction. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > [adjective] > performing abstraction abstractive1610 precisive1650 abstractionist1860 1650 F. Cheynell Divine Trinunity vi. 75 A Praecisive abstraction doth not lay any ground either for a Rational negation, or a reall separation. 1661 W. Johnson Novelty Represt ii. vii. 347 I really know not any Roman universality Ecclesiastical in your precisive and exclusive sense. 1725 I. Watts Logick i. vi. §9 Abstraction is..either Precisive or Negative. Precisive Abstraction is when we consider those Things apart which cannot really exist apart; as when we consider a Mode without considering its Substance and Subject. 1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. II Precisive,..exactly limiting. 1873 W. H. Hill Elem. Philos. ii. ii. 118 By this precisive act of the mind, and by comparison, the intellect forms the idea of the unity of nature. 1947 C. Vollert tr. F. Suárez On Var. Distinctions 19 The mind..conceives them as distinct through precisive abstraction. 1996 A. Bäck On Reduplication iv. xiii. 398 (note) The abstractive and precisive types resemble the sorts of specificative propositions distinguished by Peter of Fonseca. < as lemmas |
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